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You been really pounding them out. For some reason this guys goofyness reminds of a pirate...no idea why?
The Psionic Mutant with the helmet is a great concept and design. Your monsters always remind of halloween and even more so since it's the season. Keep up it!
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haha I love the last one!
Not sure about the color choice, but I like a lot the sketche version.
keep it up yeah!
NO!!! Don´t practice with photoshop!!!!If you go beyond in your coloring technique you´ll become the fucking master who will rule over us all!!!
Hahaha,seriously,your are improving on each pic.Keep drawing,man!!!
I like your SB a lot!
I think it might be a awsome idé to get into color. It will help you a lot. And combining different painting technics and color-tones will help you alot. I find skintone the hardest thing in color yet, but there will always be obstacles right.
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I like that second character a lot, especially his expression and how he holds that good-looking spiked axe. On the psionic mutant, I think the second version has the best values but kudos to colouring it!
Recent work is showing a lot of improvement dude, these characters are strong. Good design and execution. A concept related critique that i have is that the psionic mutant's outfit doesnt fit his character at all I think. Beyond the helmet and some subtle details im really not getting the feel of the description you gave us. Seems that that same outfit could pretty much fit unto any generic soldier with minimal changes. You couldve given us more personality and history of the character, I dont think that a crazy looking looking eradiated psychotic mutant would be so cleanly dressed, or rationally prepared with supplies or would necessarily even bother to bandage himself in his mental state. THats just what im getting from this character. I really like the overall concept, and what you did with his head and helmet design, but other than that i dont think you took it far enough yet.
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you got them purty lips, boy
i like katz -good feeling of shapes !
Been a while, neat updates for sure...your doing the right types of activities for character design thats going to soon knock our socks off if it hasn't already! It would be neat to see some digital value focused practices from you...so you can work your way into even more richly colored things in the future
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Did you go on vacation again? You haven't posted in over a week. Oh wait, I know what the problem is ... GET OFF THE VIDEO GAME!!!!
Where are you,Gnoll???????
Loving the updates...the dynamic poses and psionic mutant!
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Great update, the characters are looking very strong! its grea that your tackling the anatomy, the Bridgman studies are looking good.
This character is excellent
Keep it up
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yo gnolls, hammertime psionic dude turned out real cool. Should spend some more time refining the colors on this sucker(Its got potentiaaall). Ciao.
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Oh yah this mutant is a ugly motherf*****
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I really like him there something
wrong with the foot position tho,
I think they should be slightly angled
but the design is stellar!
@GOBLINSHARK:aaaargh ya got me again...looks like always get the balance wrong hehe colors are rushed...indeed, more like that soon, hopefully catch ya online, gobbo!
@MeTaL-Mike: thanks man!
@Dreamworker: grazie Paolo
@Kronos: hehehe, looks like it didn't last at all but the right mood is hopefully coming back, finally ciao Tom!
@Pigeonkill: hehe might be beacause of the suit...altho for some reason i was thinking of a circus boss or something.hehe halloween is everyday and never depending on my mood
@Vorace: hey thanks man...colors is a big thing, but i'll be workin on it soon...i know, i know, i say it every time
@Camara: haha! thanks camara, but you're the color masta now...just wait a few years and i'll kick you ass!
@B-Man: thanks man! yeah skintones are a bitch, and i have the bad habit of avoiding what i don' enjoy doing...but i'll try some more
@smuli: gald you like that one man! cool, looks like at least i got the values right LOL
@SirGreenSock: thank you very much for the comment man, always appreciate it when someone takes the time to crit but then again, i don't think i ever said he was psycotic, but "psionic", and i said that cause the concept was he was a mutant that has added sionic powers that are provided by the helmet, that was probably stolen as the rest of the equipment
@VanDog:good good good thanks man
@Jakers:i hear that digital value practice a lot...and you are all right.I cannot promise i WILL do those exercises asap, but once thing i can promise..gimme a couple of years and i WILL rock yer socks off (at least thats what i hope )
@OldNoobie:haha thanks mate read below for explanations, and no videogames actually, its just that i'm a lazy fucker
@Camara:read below matey...but thanks for askin'
@Blaz:i have no idea of what you mean with "liquorice" but thanks
@Hurley: thanks man, stop by again
@Sirio_Brozzi:oi sirio! wtf refining it AGAIN?! i'm done with that sunnovabitch...time to more on to the next one...soon enought
@kischi: haha indeed he is...thats people!
@maxetormer: right man, goblinshark pointed that out to me too...i did try and adjust it with te transform tool, but i didn't do it enought...practice practice practice will help me i guess thank for stoppin by, crazy mexicano!
oook people.Hell yeah looks like i've been away for a while
Lets say was in one of those crap\lazy moods where you can't draw anything...can't do much about that exept more drawing...so here are the latest sketches, hope i'm getting out of that mood...hope to show more soon
i got a brand new macbook pro 17" now, so i guess i have no excuses for not trying going digital again...and you can see my ugly mug from this pic provided by the webcam thighy
AND, i got a "demo" of uni last monday and it just looks great...very nice place, very nice people...check out pics of the place here:
going to italy's biggest comiccon on sunday (lucca comics), hope i find some inspiration there (EDIT: nope, i didn't go i the end )
hope we won't have to wait too long for the next update...and i hope its going to be better that this one!
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more shtuff...
there's even more, but i tella you...you DON'T want to see the rest
dunno why,but the zombie head just kept me staring...i think it's the intensive gaze it throws back,it's like a staring contest or something
maybe it's also the mouth,the simply rendered fluids coming out are very nice,reminds me of jamie hewlett abit (tank girl: the oddysey esp.)
dunno why,but the whole pic just...works.
edit: the burping critter is very nice too. damn your fast edits
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nanananananananananan thegnoll!!!!!! nice batman cheet.....oh but my fav r the zombie and the two faces guy ..specially the two faces guy...cheers
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I don´t know why you talk so bad about your last stuff!Is great as always!The zombie head and that kind of zombie dog are awesome!
TheGnoll,whats the difference between a PC and a Mac reffered to digital painting??I see lots of illustrators using mac instead of PC.....why???
lol man amazing stuff here!!
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really nice sketeches man. love your stuff. the dog is awesome dude!! have fun at the comic con.
I especialy like the centaur goblin lion jackle guy., and also the other guy on that page. I am feeling your bad art mood aswell, possibly it is due to the moon cycle, good luck with it.
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Crazy stuff aroud here...
just love your pencils..going to download some of them for inspiration!
Thanks for sharing
Some strong looking things on that update. Creatures are awesome of course, their designs look spot on to me but those are something that have blown my mind for long. I really like the lines and spontaneous look of the centaur too and awesome pose on this one, you can really feel the space and tension. His hands holding the katana seem somehow insecure with one finger extended though and I noticed on the angry, shouting man that you haven't given too much attention to defining the hand gestures. Maybe you could try think about them more as a tool to express the character or something because for me at least, hands are pretty much the third thing I look at after face and overall pose. Nothing crucial as most of your hands seem great the way they are but it might add some extra depth in some cases I think.
This looks really convincing to me, the pose looks good and seems to be depicted clearly and effortlessly with a few lines and shadings.
Study hard and try to keep posting!
Frazrules, gnaa, and spike creature man...Thats where its at in this update. Frazrules (does that mean what i think it does? ) was my favorite in this batch, really nice posed gnollmaster. You taking part in that batman challenge? o_O c'mon man, get back in the mood too. Will be waiting for new updates soon. Good luck! (what happened to the workshop thing?) Ciao.
funk period..slump period....man you gotta find out a way , your own way to get out of it.Me...what I do is ...draw like a fuck ..anything everything ...study, imaginative(or whats lacking imagination) I just draw , I am hating every second of it but I do it....then bam one good line falls on the page and I am gold. so go ahead do your shit man......I know you will get out and btw even funk period aint that bad its just lacking your own creative energy.
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Those are good sketches even if you feel like you are in a slump. These times are good for experimenting (different mediums, papers, etc) so if it doesn't dome out good, blame it on the slump or the material but if it does come out good, slump is over.
The expression on the dudes face (upper left) is ridiculously awesome.
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Hey Mr! Thanks for dropping by again, thought I'd come see what you've been up to lately!
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Sian Beilock is the author of "Choke: What the Secrets Of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To."
She recently co-authored a report that suggests that when a person is anxious about math, his or her brain responds in the same way it would if the person was experiencing pain.
Beilock, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, helps people learn how not to choke in important, stressful situations, such as taking a math test.
She has her own story of choking: Years ago she was playing in the U.S. Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program, and a national coach was on the field, standing behind her. She was the goalie and allowed two goals to fly past her.
"It was a horrible game and affected my interest and willingness to pursue soccer," she told me. "I knew I could play as a top athlete, but when the pressure was on, I didn't pull out my best performance."
She said there's a lot of research that has examined how we learn, but she wanted to know what happens when we sometimes fail to show what we know. We talked about her math study, and here's an edited transcript of our conversation:
Q: For the report, you and your former doctoral student, Ian Lyons, studied people who said they were anxious about math and others who weren't.
A: We asked everyone to do a series of tests while we scanned their brains using magnetic resonance imaging. We are able to look at what's going on in the brain when they're anticipating doing math and while they're doing it. One of the parts of the brain that was more active for people who are math-anxious was the back part of the insula. It's an interesting region because we know it's active when people have visceral stress or feel physical pain. We showed that the more anxious people were about math, the more that region of the brain was activated. For people who weren't anxious about math, we didn't show that relationship.
Q: Why choose math as a subject?
A: We'd been interested in how anticipation and anxiety about something you don't like to do or aren't confident about affect the brain and how you perform. We know math is a common issue for a lot of people. You don't hear people bragging that they can't read. But it's totally acceptable to admit you're not a numbers person. We wanted to know: Is there something about anxiety regarding doing math (that we can see during magnetic resonance imaging) that affects how math-anxious people perform and whether they want to pursue math?
Q: If math is painful, people will stay away from it?
A: It's like what I did on the soccer field. People will be reluctant to learn math, and that's problematic because math is such a part of our world. In our study we had participants looking at algebraic equations or solving for "x." But research has shown that people who are highly anxious about math don't perform rudimentary problems well.
Q: Your testing showed that these weren't people who were just naturally high-strung and anxious about many different things, right?
A: That's right.
Q: And, their anxiety about math wasn't only about taking tests?
A: One of the interesting things about math anxiety is that you don't have to be under the microscope of being tested. People get anxious when they get a receipt or get a math textbook or even when they're told their math requirements for graduation.
Q: I've tried to be a math cheerleader for my daughter because of the stereotypes that suggest girls aren't good at math. There's a fascinating gender component to this research.
A: We know from other work that women tend to be more anxious about math than men. In previous work that we've done, we've followed up on a finding that one group of people that tend to be most anxious about math are teachers who are going into elementary school education. In the U.S., 90 percent of them are women. We found that for first- and second-grade teachers, the more anxious they were about their math skills, this affected the girl students more than the boys.
Q: The teachers made the girls more anxious?
A: The girls were more likely to endorse the thinking that boys are better in math than girls. The consequence is that teachers send messages to girls, and they develop their own anxiety. People who have math anxiety talk about having negative experiences with math early on. Most people think those experiences don't happen until middle school. But we have another paper that shows first- and second-graders have math anxiety.
Q: The messages are so important.
A: Last year I blogged about a T-shirt that was on the shelf at a department store. It said, "I'm too pretty to do math so my brother does it for me." It was aimed at tween girls.
Q: Well, that sucks. I've noticed that people tend to think that either you write well or you do math well. But the two aren't mutually exclusive.
A: People pigeonhole themselves. It doesn't have to be that way. You may have a natural proclivity to do one thing, but that doesn't have to come at the expense of the other. There are many obstacles.
Q: What can a person do if he or she is anxious about math?
A: There are psychological tools, and journaling is one. We haven't published that journaling works on math anxiety, but we have shown that it works on other testing. Journaling before a test allows you to download those worries so that they're less likely to pop up and distract you later.
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How can I get answers to questions I have about Federal Work Study?
Visit the Enrollment Information Center on the first floor of the Student Services and Administration Building (SA) on the Hayward Campus.
Where do I view my financial aid package to see if I was given a Work Study award?
View your award in MyCSUEB.
I'm having trouble finding a Work Study job, how can I find a position?
Visit the Enrollment Information Center. There are often more positions available than eligible students each year.
How do I submit hours I worked in my Work Study job?
Submit your hours daily in MyCSUEB Student Center. Print a copy of your online time sheets after supervisor approval and signature for your own tax records; Work Study is taxable income.
When do I get my Work Study paycheck?
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VALDOSTA — If the Albany State Rams were looking for a defining moment to jumpstart their 2012 season, they may have found it Wednesday at Billy Grant Field in Valdosta.
For the first time in seven years, the Rams defeated annual powerhouse and bitter rival Valdosta State, and this time they did so in convincing fashion. The ASU pitching staff combined to allow just six hits, and the Rams got base hits in key situations to knock off the Blazers, 7-3.
"Timely hits and good pitching, that's what baseball is and we had some of it," Albany State coach Kenyan Conner said. "We answered the challenge. We beat a good team, not just a team in our conference."
The Rams, who had last beaten the Blazers on Feb. 10, 2005, are now 1-3 overall. They got swept by Nova Southeastern in the season-opening series over the weekend, losing three games by a combined 34 runs.
"We are at that crossroads now of, 'Am I good or am I not?' " Conner said. "We just have to have confidence in what we are doing. Our whole goal is to get better by the end of the year. The kids are happy and I am happy because we won the game. But that's why we are happy. It really doesn't matter who the opponent is. It does, (however), give you a good measuring stick of your potential."
The ASU pitching staff, which walked an amazing 17 hitters in the team's season-opening loss to Nova Southeastern on Friday, still had some control issues Wednesday when they issued nine bases on balls. But the difference against Valdosta State was the defense behind the Rams' arms, Conner said.
"Only had one error all night," he said. "The walks don't hurt you if you don't make errors behind him."
The Blazers stranded 12 base runners — at least one in every inning but the third and ninth — and had the bases loaded in the second inning with no outs but came away with no runs.
The Rams broke the game open in the top of the fifth inning when former Westover star Jacob Campbell opened up the frame with a double. Ryan Latner and Corbin Williams singled, Theodore Tramontana drew a walk and Eddie Mathis was hit by a pitch during an inning where the Rams plated four runs and took command of the game.
The Blazers (1-3) got on the board in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI single by Austin Lawrence, but the Rams quickly struck back with four hits and three runs in the top of the eighth.
ASU starter Donte Williams threw five innings, allowed just one hit, struck out six and walked six. Ken Nesbitt and Clifford Peterson each pitched two innings of relief and combined to allow five hits and three earned runs. Reigning conference Player of the Year William Smalls, Williams and Campbell each had two hits, while Williams and Stephen Lightfoot each drove in two runs.
ASU plays again this weekend in a three-game series at Shorter College. The Rams will play a doubleheader Saturday, with the first game starting at noon and then play a single game Sunday at 1 p.m.
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According to Stacey Ryan, CASA's development director, 22 adult teams and four high-school teams have applied and competition will begin Saturday, Nov. 2, at 9 a.m. at the school.
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The typhoon in the Philippines hits close to home for Jessica Sanchez. Even though the American Idol runner-up was born and raised in the United States, she has family over there and her mom is from Bataan. Sanchez will be performing a live benefit concert on Stageit.com Friday night, all of the proceeds will go the the America Red Cross to help victims.
"My grandmother and my grandfather live over there right now but my grandmother's visiting so my grandfather's over there and we called to see if he was okay and thankfully he was, I mean it's just tragic what's happening over there."
Earlier this year, Sanchez performed in Manila. She says it was an unforgettable experience.
"It was amazing, that was my second time there and that was before my album came out but I sang just like covers there and it was a sold out concert. The arena was huge and they're so so supportive."
Jessica will soon be going to the Philippines, along with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquaio.
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Jessica will also be part of the tree lighting ceremony at Hollywood and Highland Thursday night.
Fun Facts About Jessica Sanchez (Source: Wikipedia)
1) She is an American singer originally from Chula Vista, California. She was the runner-up on the eleventh season of the reality show American Idol, and is currently signed to 19 Recordings and Interscope Records.
2) Prior to appearing on American Idol, Sanchez competed in the first season of America's Got Talent at the age of 11.
3) She started singing at the age of 2, and aspires to be a mainstream singer who can "belt but sing upbeat songs". Eminem and Beyoncé are her favorite male and female artists, while Jennifer Hudson is her favorite American Idol contestant. Other musical influences include Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Etta James, Christina Aguilera, and Michael Jackson.
4) At the age of 10 Sanchez was runner‑up to Jonathan Liberato on a TV show. Sanchez got a standing ovation for performing Aretha Franklin's "Respect" on Showtime at the Apollo. The hostess Whoopi Goldberg called her back on stage to accept a second round of applause.
Jessica's first live performance on StageIt.com is Friday night starting at five. All proceeds will go to the American Red Cross in support of those affected by Typhoon Haiyan.
Jessica will also be taking part in the Hollywood Tree Lighting Thursday night at Hollywood And Highland.
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CRIMINAL PRACTICE: Jury Selection, Batson
Alert: The defendant failed to meet his burden of showing that the State's proffered reason for striking four black jurors would not also have been applied neutrally to a white juror.
Subject Matter Index: Denial of defendant's Batson motion, affirmed, as he failed to meet his burden of showing that State's proffered reason for striking four black jurors based on their criminal background check results would not also have been applied neutrally to white juror with similar background.
Headnote: The Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of William E. Holloman's Batson motion, holding that he failed to meet his burden of showing that the State's proffered reason for striking four black jurors based on their criminal background check results would not also have been applied neutrally to a white juror with a similar background.
Text: Doyle, Sara L., Presiding JudgeWilliam Earl Holloman appeals from his conviction of selling cocaine.1 On appeal, Holloman's sole argument is that the trial court erred by finding that the prosecution did not violate Batson v. Kentucky2 when it used five peremptory strikes to remove black jurors and by denying his motion for new trial based on his Batson challenge. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
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employ[s] a three-step analysis in addressing a defendant's Batson challenge. First, the opponent of a peremptory challenge must make a prima facie showing of racial discrimination. Then, the burden shifts to the proponent of the strike to provide a race-neutral reason for the strike. The trial court then decides whether the opponent of the strike has proven discriminatory intent.3
Unless the trial court's decision was clearly erroneous, we shall not disturb the court's ruling.4
The record reveals that out of thirty-four potential jurors, twelve were black, and the twelve-person jury empaneled to hear the case consisted of two black individuals. The State used five peremptory strikes, and each of those strikes was used against a black individual. The State explained that one of those jurors was struck because he knew the defendant, and Holloman conceded that the State properly struck this individual. The State then explained that it struck the other four individuals because pre-trial preparation revealed that each of those individuals had involvement with law enforcement, even if the incident was an arrest or a charge that was later dismissed. The State did not have the results of its background searches in court, but proffered that its reason for striking the four remaining jurors was based on that check. The trial court found that the State's proffered reason for striking the four jurors based on their criminal background check results was a race-neutral reason and denied Holloman's Batson motion.
"Because the [State] offered race-neutral reasons for the peremptory challenges[,] and the trial court ruled on the ultimate question of intentional discrimination, we need address only the sufficiency of the [State's] explanation for the peremptory strikes."5 Holloman contends that although the State proffered the criminal background check of these jurors as the reason for their dismissal, he argues that the State failed to supply evidence of the results of the check at the trial or at the hearing for the motion for new trial, which supports his argument that the proffered reason was not credible. Nevertheless, no evidence was presented by Holloman that the reason given by the State for striking these particular jurors would not also have been applied neutrally to a white juror with a similar background.6 Ultimately it was Holloman's burden to provide evidence to support his argument, and Holloman failed to produce this proof during trial or at the hearing on the motion for new trial.7
Accordingly, his argument is without merit.
Judgment affirmed. Andrews, P.J. and Boggs, J., concur.
1OCGA § 16-13-30 (b).
2476 U. S. 79 (106 SC 1712, 90 LE2d 69) (1986).
3(Footnotes and punctuation omitted.) Cowan v. State, 279 Ga. App. 532, 534 (2) (631 SE2d 760) (2006).
4See id.
5White v. State, 258 Ga. App. 546, 548 (3) (574 SE2d 629) (2002). See also Smiley v. State, 263 Ga. 716, 716-717 (1) (438 SE2d 75) (1994) (criminal history constitutes a race-neutral reason, which the defendant must overcome to establish a Batson violation).
6See Smiley, 263 Ga. at 716-717 (1). See also White, 258 Ga. App. at 550 (3) ("A neutral explanation is one based on something other than the race of the juror, and, if discriminatory intent is not inherent in the explanation, the reason offered will be deemed race-neutral. At the final stage of a Batson inquiry, the ultimate burden of persuasion regarding racial motivation rests with, and never shifts from, the opponent of the strike.") (citation and punctuation omitted).
7See White, 258 Ga. App. at 549-550 (3) ("The trial court's decision on a Batson motion rests largely upon assessment of the prosecutor's state of mind and credibility; it therefore lies peculiarly within a trial judge's province. The trial court's factual findings must be given great deference and may be disregarded only if clearly erroneous.")
Trial Judge: James Tunison, Lowndes Superior Court.,
Attorneys: Jason Cain, Assistant Public Defender, Valdosta, for appellant. J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Jessica Clark, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.,


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The good news: Meeting planners and facilitators both want the same thing: the success of a client's meeting. The not-so-good news: Most planners don't know how to work with facilitators or truly understand how they can help them to do their jobs better.
It's hard for some planners to see how these virtual outsiders can become so intimately involved with their meeting's process and purpose. But that's exactly what makes facilitators so valuable: They are independent and impartial, unlike anyone else in the room.
"Facilitators are able to rise above any office politics or factionalism that may exist within the parties at a meeting and help all participants move toward the meeting's declared goal," says Betty Kjellberg, CAE, executive director of the more than 1,300-member International Association of Facilitators, Scottsdale, Ariz. While planners need to focus on keeping a meeting running smoothly, facilitators deal with the relationships and interpersonal interactions of the attendees. It's that neutral, external perspective that a facilitator brings to the table that is most helpful in getting a group to reach its goals.
When the corporate leadership team at Riverton, a Cambridge, Mass. — based information technology consulting firm, prepared to conduct a recent annual corporate planning session, the company decided to use a facilitator. "In my experience, if you don't engage a facilitator for a session like this, it's usually the CEO (me) who runs the session," says CEO David Gleason. "It's all too easy for me to overweight my ideas and block free-flowing input from other members of the team.
"By using an independent facilitator, everyone feels more equal, and active participation by everyone is more certain," he adds. "It also frees me up to listen more attentively to the ideas of other members of the team."
"It's always so rewarding for me to see the enthusiasm in the group by the time we get to the end of the meeting," says Kjellberg, who has been facilitating meetings for seven years. "People will say, 'We have been meeting forever, but never made this much progress before. Now we have a much clearer view of where we are going.'"
How It Works
The first step for most facilitators is to interview their clients to get a handle on the desired meeting outcome. "Facilitators add most of their value in the planning stages with the three P's: Purpose, People, and Product," says Sandor Schuman, PhD, research associate at the Center for Policy Research at the University of Albany, New York.
Schuman has been facilitating meetings for more than 30 years and is editor of the IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation. "They always work with clients ahead of time to elucidate the goals of a meeting, determine what final physical product the client wants the meeting to produce (a list of ideas, a resource allocation plan, a policy statement, etc.), and what people need to attend or participate in the meeting to achieve both purpose and product."
Of course, their other function is to keep the meeting on track. "You have to be able to listen and then ask questions that help them [participants] articulate better and think more deeply about what they have been saying," says Kjellberg. "You are constantly not only listening to the content, but also thinking about the process and trying to determine if the meeting is working and going where it needs to go."
During the meeting, facilitators use a variety of tools and techniques to draw out and channel the knowledge and skills present among the meeting participants. For example, they establish ground rules to keep the meeting on track. Some use specific processes to spark brainstorming. Others use games to help accomplish their goals, such as a visioning exercise to inspire the group to think outside the box, or activities to get the creative juices flowing in a product development session. The facilitator (or an assistant) will often record and arrange ideas on white boards or foam core and post them on walls.
Facilitators need flexibility to do their work. They want to be able to rearrange the chairs, set up flip charts on tripods, and tape things to the walls. This is where the planner and facilitator need to coordinate their efforts: If a room is a beautiful space, but the walls are covered with paintings, or the chairs are bolted down in an amphitheater arrangement, or the floor is sloped (thus throwing the tripod off balance), the facilitator will be unable to properly do his or her job. Yet both Kjellberg and Schuman lament the fact that meeting planners and facilitators rarely collaborate on meeting space decisions. Usually, the first time they actually meet is minutes before the meeting starts.
Such coordination may be developing, says Joan Eisenstodt, chief strategist for Eisenstodt Associates, LLC, Conference Consulting, Facilitation & Training, Washington, D.C. After working with a "superb" facilitator on one of her programs, Eisenstodt was inspired to broaden her own skills and become a facilitator for her own meetings.
Why isn't there more understanding of facilitation in the meeting industry? According to Eisenstodt, it is starting to happen. "I think our industry is working hard to get planners to be more strategic in their thinking and to help their organizations become more strategic about meetings. Facilitation is the next logical step to getting there."
Finding a Facilitator
Where's the best place for meeting planners to find a facilitator? Many facilitators report getting the bulk of their business through word of mouth, so the safest course is asking peers if they have ever worked with a facilitator whose techniques or results they admire.
There is no source for group facilitation rates, but the going rate seems to be at least $1,000 or more per day, plus expenses. Some companies, such as Meeting Facilitators International, Toronto, Canada, have a money-back guarantee; if you're not satisfied with the results, you don't pay.
If you can't get a personal introduction to a facilitator, several electronic resources can help you to track one down. The IAF (www.iaf-world.org) has a "Find a Facilitator" link on its homepage that allows visitors to either search the entire IAF membership directory or a subset of certified members sorted by geographic location. An alternate facilitator directory called the National Facilitator Database (www.nfdb.com) provides additional details, including sample clients, billing rates, certification, and areas of expertise for the facilitators in its database. Another option is for planners to post project information to an 800-plus member facilitator discussion group by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
In the future, the IAF plans to introduce a bulletin board service where planners who are in search of facilitators could post descriptions of their projects for a wide audience of facilitators to view. Until the service goes live, Kjellberg personally fields all requests that come into her office. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Want to Be a Facilitator?
What kind of background and education does a meeting planner need to become a facilitator?
"There are numerous ways people end up in this role," says Tammy Adams, managing partner of Chaosity, a company based in Tempe, Ariz., that offers facilitation and project management services. "Some people naturally have a facilitation skill-set, just like others have a natural inclination to become negotiators and mediators. It's easy for them to do."
For those not born under a facilitation star, training programs pick up where nature leaves off. Adams runs a training class in her facilitation niche: helping companies with technology requirements and business-process analysis. Other educators teach "Facilitation 101," which covers the basics of managing group dynamics. Facilitators who master the core competencies of their profession can earn certification from the International Association of Facilitators, Scottsdale, Ariz. For information, visit www.iaf-world.org.
Learn More
All of the following books are available at www.amazon.com:
The Skilled Facilitator by Roger Schwarz
(1994, Jossey-Bass).
Facilitating with Ease! by Ingrid Bens
(2001, Jossey-Bass)
Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner
(1996, New Society Publishers)
IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation, edited by Sandor Schuman


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